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A taste of Titanic

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The Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology Hotel School hosted a meal for 70 people that featured almost the same 11-course menu that was served to first-class passengers on the Titanic the night it sank. The €100-a-head dinner was the idea of Noel Loughnane, a lecturer in culinary arts at GMIT, who reproduced the period menu as a teaching experience for students. Left: Paula Stakelum, Claire O'Loughlin and Asmerom Haile prepare icing on a replica of the vessel. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy

A taste of Titanic

Guests at the Hotel School, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, for the Titanic first class passenger menu evening. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy

On the seas

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The White Star Line vessel was the largest afloat at the time. Photograph: PA

Final voyage

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A view of the Titanic on her first and last voyage after leaving Queenstown - now Cobh. More than 1,500 people died when the ship sank on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York after hitting an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland. Photograph: Getty Images

Ship's interior

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The grand staircase between the boat deck and the promenade deck. Photograph: New York Times

Seabed

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The bow of the Titanic, which now rests two-and-a-half miles below the surface of the North Atlantic. Photograph: Reuters